Will Hines Dot Net

Louis C.K. on taking technology for granted. This routine is so funny that just someone else summarizing it for me made me laugh. While you’re at it check out this old forty second clip he made that’s on Funny Or Die which is also the best thing ever.

In other news, Rob Lathan is kinda viral. Dry Hump the Vote got on the front page of Digg last night, and then, weirdly, was also featured on some tv show called Around the Net on G4? I think it’s a TV show. G4? What’s that? At any rate, at about 3:30 you can see a studio audience [...]

Dry Hump the Vote. Written/starring Rob. Directed by me. Thanks to Damian Chadwick for the logo.

A few things:

• Rob and I have worked on this video for 14 years.
• Any video that’s just jump cutting someone listing a bunch of silly things; I’m down for it.
• I shot it in (fake) 16:9, but tried to export it 4:3 — a process that resulted in me uploading the video 6 times to FunnyOrDie. UCBComedy and YouTube handled the first try no problem though!

Cat in a bag

Right?

Figurative Language Bomb. A UCBComedy-NY original. Written by Alex Kane. Directed by Anthony King. Starring Charlie Sanders, Will Storie and voiceover by Lennon Parham. Nate Smith shot/edited it.

Among other things, the best use of the word “synecdoche” you will see in a comedy video this year.

I have the political sense of a stone, but I know this: John McCain’s speech last night at the Al Smith Memorial dinner was one of the funniest speeches I’ve heard a prominent politician give. He made a Zoroaster joke! (5:28) That is amazing! Zoroaster jokes are guaranteed entry into the Will Hines Wants To Hang Out With You list. It’s not a coveted list, but it’s there. Though his best line is where he was digging Chris Matthews’ admiration of Obama: “It’s gonna be a long night at MSNBC if I manage to pull this thing off.” (6:30)

Watch Part 2 where he introduces Barack, I laughed [...]

Dyna’s Mad Men illustrations continue their steady takeover of the internet. Today she’s in The Comics Journal’s blog Journalista!, which was linking to the blog Drawn!

…Which made me look through Drawn! Which is super-cool! Do you all know about this site? Check out these typewriter robots!

I worked for The Acorn Press (now Hersam Acorn) for two years after college as a reporter. Often we had to take photos for our articles. None of us had any real photo experience. But when Jack Sanders, executive editor then and now, handed me a camera he said “Get close. People like to see faces.”

And he was right! Almost all amateur photographs are too far away from the people. Moving a few steps closer makes a big difference. But now I am always a jerk when people take pictures. “Can you step closer?” I say. They move a quarter of an inch closer. “No, more [...]

George Ferencz (farthest left in the photo above) was the first person I saw at my 20th high school reunion, thank God. He was my first friend in Connecticut when my family moved here when I was eight, so it was fitting to me that he was the person I saw at the reunion. To my surprise, the entire reunion was fun. I don’t look back that fondly on high school. Everyone was kind of a jerk. *I* was kind of a jerk. My mother died halfway through. Girls paid attention to jerk guys. Guys paid attention to jerk girls. Lots of meaningless rules. A horrible time!

But even *I* enjoyed the reunion! There’s something [...]

Happy John and Sean Lennon Birthday.

I love the dude at 4:12 — “When are the Beatles getting back together?” “Tomorrow!”

George Harrison visiting Lennon’s mansion in England and talking about Beatle Ed is fun, too.

Evil Twin Standoff – Written by Guy Patton. Directed by Brandon Bassham. Shot/edited by Pete Schultz. Starring Rob Lathan, Andree Vermeulen, Brian Barrett. A UCBT-NY original.